Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Zoe Pound was founded in 1990 in response to growing attacks on Haitian Americans, initially acting as a vigilante self-defense group before morphing into a gang by the mid-1990s. [9] [10] Throughout its early years, members engaged in piracy, targeting Haitian trawlers throughout the Miami River. Any crew who resisted were often tortured and ...
The gang war rocked North Miami and North Miami Beach in 2002, and started when investigators say the Terrorist Boyz plowed a car through the front door of a Broward County gun shop and stole 33 ...
Italian-American Mafia criminal organizations in the city are nicknamed the Miami Mafia. In the 20th century, Mafia bosses agreed to share South Florida as a territory open to all crime families, with the exception of the pornography racket, over which the Gambino family held a monopoly. [1] Criminal organizations known to operate in Miami include:
The Miami Boys was a drug organization composed of a loose-knit group of African-American drug suppliers and dealers from south Florida (particularly Miami). Also known as "the Untouchables", [ 1 ] the group started in the early 1980s and by 1986 the organization had spread to other cities and states throughout the Southeastern United States.
Sidney Poitier. In the late 1980s, a scam artist named Charles Agee Atkins scammed several celebrities into joining a fake tax shelter. This scheme generated phony losses totaling more than $1.3 ...
A Miami man who authorities say belonged to the notorious Latin Kings gang was found guilty Wednesday of forcing women to have commercial sex and beating them if they didn’t obey his orders.
Unknown to his fellow gang members, Paciello had also started providing information about them and their Cosa Nostra contacts to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). [ 6 ] In late November 1995, Paciello opened a new nightclub, Club Liquid, in South Beach , bringing in local celebrity Ingrid Casares as a partner.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us